Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.